Salt Lake City: Police won’t be opening a major investigation into the disappearance of a mysterious silver-coloured monolith that generated international attention and a mess when curious visitors made their way to the site of the discovery in the Utah desert.
The sheriff in San Juan County says the office doesn’t have the resources to devote much time and energy to the taking of the object, which was illegal, to begin with, because it was placed without permission amid red rocks on a remote section of public land. Its creator also remains a mystery.
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Hundreds of people came to see it after the gleaming, almost otherworldly object garnered widespread attention as a literal bright spot in a sea of grim news during the pandemic. Authorities are accepting tips from anyone who saw anything suspicious related to the discovery.
Visitors parked vehicles on plants and left behind waste, according to the Bureau of Land Management. The site doesn’t have a parking lot, bathrooms or cellphone coverage, and some passenger cars had to be towed from the remote area after getting stuck.